Metrics - Check That Field

The Metrics tab (/admin#metrics) shows how big the platform is and how it is growing.

How the numbers are counted

The counts read large tables, so they are never worked out when you open the tab. Instead, a snapshot of every number is taken once an hour and the tab shows the latest. The line under the heading says when: “Counted every hour. Last counted 12 min ago.”

Open fields are the slowest count, so they are counted afresh once a day and carried between hourly snapshots.
Land parcels is an estimate from the database’s own statistics, not an exact count.
If no snapshot exists yet, opening the tab takes the first one. That can take half a minute.

A few of these numbers are public, through the public metrics endpoint: councils read, applications held, open fields, fields scored and reports.

Councils

Tile	Meaning
Councils	Every planning authority in England we hold a boundary for.
With a pipeline	Councils with at least one pipeline switched on. This is “councils read” in the public numbers.
History complete	Of those, councils whose pipeline has read all the way back through its history.
Failing	Councils with a pipeline switched on that is failing or blocked. Look at the Pipelines tab.

Applications

Tile	Meaning
Held	Every planning application we hold, of any kind.
For homes	Of those, applications for new homes. These are the ones the scores and the API use.
On the map	Applications with a location. The line below splits it: from the council’s own location, from the postcode, and from the address.
New in 24 h, New in 7 days	Applications first seen in that time.

Fields

Tile	Meaning
Land parcels (about)	Every land parcel we hold, estimated. Most are gardens, buildings and roads, not fields.
Open fields	Parcels that are open land and at least 0.2 hectares: the fields we can score. Counted once a day.
Scored	Fields with a score under the current scoring model. Scores from an older model aren’t counted.
Share scored	Scored as a share of open fields.

Under the tiles, Scored fields by band splits the scored fields into Low, Moderate, High and Very High, with each band’s count and share.

Reports and searches

Tile	Meaning
Reports	Every report made, free and deep.
Reports in 7 days	Reports made in the last 7 days.
Failed in 7 days	Reports in the last 7 days that failed. A rise is worth looking into.
Deep reports bought	Paid purchases, ever.
Searches in 7 days	Map searches by people in the last 7 days. Crawlers are left out. API and widget lookups aren’t searches.

Partners

Tile	Meaning
Active keys	Keys not revoked, API and widget together.
API calls in 7 days	Calls to the API counted against all keys’ quotas, over the last 7 days including today. Widget loads are not included; see the widget lines below.
Widget views in 7 days	Widgets seen on partners’ pages. See Security and privacy for what counts as a view.
Widget clicks in 7 days	Clicks from a widget to a full report or the map.

For one partner’s numbers, see the Keys tab.

The trend lines

At the foot of the tab, three lines cover up to the last 90 days: new applications, fields scored and reports, each a day. A day’s figure is how much its total grew since the day before, from the last snapshot of each day (UTC). Hover over a line to see a day’s figure; the number beside each title is the sum over the days shown. The lines appear once there are snapshots from at least three days.